SELECT FOR UPDATE with SQL Server

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Recently I had a deadlock problem because Sql Server locks more then necessary (page). You can’t really do anything against it. Now we are catching deadlock exceptions… and I wish I had Oracle instead.

Edit:
We are using snapshot isolation meanwhile, which solves many, but not all of the problems. Unfortunately, to be able to use snapshot isolation it must be allowed by the database server, which may cause unnecessary problems at customers site. Now we are not only catching deadlock exceptions (which still can occur, of course) but also snapshot concurrency problems to repeat transactions from background processes (which cannot be repeated by the user). But this still performs much better than before.

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